but the president through a snit over snowden and russia's decision to grant the nsa leaker temporary asylum. a top foreign policy aide called the decision disappointing. so is the obama response to putin's decision to giv temporary asylum to snowden the wisest course? how can washington's officialdom rationalize the -- al qaeda on the run or decimated with the latest terrorist plot that prompted the administration to shutter our embassies in the middle east and north africa. joining us tonight generaa jack keane, retired army general. former army vice chief of sff and fox news military analyst. general, great to ha you with us. your reaction if you will, first, to what is an amazing display of ent mow logical interest on the part of the administration, a fascination with semantics instead of plain, straight talk? >> well, we've never had some straight talk here, lou. it's really frustrating. we've ner had a comprehensive strrtegy to defeat the al qaeda. i'd defy anybody to tell me what that is. so when we talk about successes, yes, we've had successes. we drove them out of afghanista